Cover to “Doctor Fate” #4, Brendan McCarthy, 2016

DC Comics.

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Pick a side.

And when you do, remember that someday your children or grandchildren might ask which one it was.

(Via The Lincoln Project.)



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“Le Liseur,” Odilon Redon, 1892

“The Reader.”  Lithograph.

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“Odilon Redon, Le Liseur (The reader), 1892, lithograph, Rosenwald Collection, 1951.10.457”

Photo of Roanoke, VA by Bckdraft911, 2009

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“I sunk into solitude. I lived in the Tree behind Me.” Odilon Redon, 1896

Lithograph on paper.

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Here’s another picture of the demolition site between Salem and Campbell Avenues.

I just think it’s neat.  It’s weird looking to where the Campbell Court bus hub used to be and seeing an enormous empty space.

The city has a deal with developer to put a few things in the redesigned space, including apartments and stores.  You can read all about it here at The Roanoke Times.



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“La Coupe du Devenir,” Odilon Redon, 1894

“The Chalice of Becoming.”  Oil on canvas.

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My friend Tara is a newly minted published poet!!!

Please join me in congratulating her for seeing her poem “Finally” appear over at Spillwords Press!!

You can find it right here.



(But it’s probably a mooooot point.)

When you take a loooooooong Saturday nap and then wake up groggy, apple fritters kinda look like calf brains.

I’m just sayin’.



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“Bohemian Catastrophe.”

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Lost by a landside,
So I’ll destroy democracy.
Open your eyes,
Watch the hearings and see,
I’m just a despot, deserving no sympathy,
Cause’s power’s easy come, easy go,
My IQ’s little low,
And way the wind blows doesn’t bode too well for me,
for me …



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